Posts Tagged ‘International Congress on Glass’

A former customer of Peltier Glass, which closed in 2010 wrote us recently to ask where to find a replacement for a product she had regularly bought from Peltier. For many years we would refer pressed and blown glass customers to the Society for Glass Sciences and Practices website, maintained by the West Virginia University College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. Before I wrote to back to the customer, I checked to see if the SGSP site was still up, but it is not.

Back in the late 1970s Hope Gas supported the formation of the Society for Glass Science and Practices, and the last SGSP meeting at the traditional site, the Oglebay Resort and Conference Center, was in 2010. Most of the “hand glass” manufacturers have closed their glass plants, and their suppliers, who helped support the meeting, are working with customers in other areas of glass, or have also closed. We are updating the Glass Factory Directory of North America now, and the “Pressed and Blown” section in the 2013 edition will be very small.